title: Teaching gastroenterology in a private outpatient clinic.
abstract: In this essay I review how I have taught clinical gastroenterology to residents and fellows and medical students for the past 40 years in an academic private outpatient clinic. Private patients can serve as "teaching patients," even in an ambulatory setting, and even in a managed care environment that encourages productivity.
authors.affiliation: Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8019, USA.
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Spiro
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D005762:Gastroenterology / Q000193:education*